Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offence.
Edsger Dijkstra
A good system can't have a weak command language.
Alan J. Perlis
When all you have is a hammer, everything starts to look like a nail.
Anonymous
The sooner we start coding fewer frameworks and more programs the sooner we’ll become better programmers.
Warped Java Guy Elementary Java Solutions
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Anonymous
With all due respect John, I am the head of IT and I have it on good authority. If you type "Google" into Google, you can break the Internet.
Jen, "The IT Crowd"
Design bugs are often subtle and occur by evolution with early assumptions being forgotten as new features or uses are added to a system.
Fernando J. Corbató
There are no significant bugs in our released software that any significant number of users want fixed.
Bill Gates
I think there's a world market for about five computers.
Thomas J Watson Senior, 1945
People who deal with bits should expect to get bitten.
Jon Bentley